Horace King: From Captive Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
September 8, 2015
Elizabeth Jennings Graham (born Elizabeth Jennings, c. late 1820s–June 5, 1901) was a Black schoolteacher, church organist, and...
Jo Ann Robinson was a civil rights activist who organized a city bus boycott by African Americans in...
“My desires were to be free as soon as I learned that there had been slavery of human beings.” Rosa Parks was nationally recognized as the “mother of the civil rights...
“I am a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South. From there I was promoted...
Oliver Reginald Tambo was, as acting president of the African National Congress (ANC), a principal spokesman for the...
George Lester Jackson was an African-American political revolutionary, prisoners’ rights activist, author, a member of the Black Panther Party, and co-founder of the Black Guerrilla Family while incarcerated. His life story...
“Our purpose in life is to leave a legacy for our children and our children’s children. For this...
Vernon Napoleon Johns (April 22, 1892 – June 11, 1965) was a brilliant, uncompromising Baptist preacher whose life...
Mary Elizabeth Carnegie was a ground-breaking nurse, educator, and author who championed the cause of African American nurses. She was the first Black nurse to serve as a voting member on...
Lucy Craft Laney was an early African-American educator who in 1883 founded the first school for black children...
“I have created nothing really beautiful, really lasting, but if I can inspire one of these youngsters to...
[dropcap size=small]J[/dropcap]ames Cameron survived being lynched from a maple tree in Marion, Indiana, when he was sixteen years old. Cameron, who kept a piece of the rope that had scarred his...
Meserette Kentake, founder of Kentake Page, was born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica, and is of Yoruba descent (mtDNA). Now based in London, she holds a BSc in Counselling Psychology but is most passionate about…
